Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 31, 2018
According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. Why is that? 2) How do M-Changa’s crowdfunding services fill that void?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 21, 2015
In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 28, 2014
Could you add an attachment to the phone that could sense the pollution? He now lives in rural Kenya working on eye care. Andrew’s focus is on curing blindness: 80% of the people he sees in rural Kenya can have their blindness reversed. Will such an app work? If it worked, would it lead to behavior change that would save lives?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 25, 2008
we get to hear the story of a cell phone banking service that gives the poor effective banking services in Kenya when the country's banks have declined to serve them. And, Kenya is not the only country to discover this opportunity. And, Kenya is not the only country to discover this opportunity. Don't bark at us.
Tech Soup
MAY 26, 2011
phone was a brand new and exciting phenomenon and something that only a. word "phone" be dropped from its title. The mobile phone (henceforth to. Text message a landline phone. So how can nonprofits utilize mobile phones for their work? This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. The election controversy became the pretext for ethnic clashes that displaced hundreds of thousands of people and claimed the lives of more than 600, some in grisly fashion.
Tech Soup
MAY 7, 2013
Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.
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